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Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin; with a new Introduction by Edward P. Jones Since its original publication in 1955, this first collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad, are as powerful today as when they were first written. A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.
Langston Hughes
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0623-8 192 pp | $15.00/$17.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-8070-0624-5 | $15.00
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo PAPERBACK FEBRUARY 2013 From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first centurys great, unequal cities. This book belongs on reading lists as a work that allows high schoolers to see the incredible hardships of life in a developing country.
Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6755-8 288 pp | $27.00/$32.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-64395-1 | $13.99
Ready Player One: A Novel
by Ernest Cline NOW IN PAPERBACK At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debutpart quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera. An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Clines imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe.
Booklist, starred review
Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-88744-3 384 pp | $14.00/$17.00 Can. Audio: 978-0-307-91314-2 | $40.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-88745-0 | $9.99
Tales from Lovecraft Middle School #1: Professor Gargoyle
by Charles Gilman Gilmans debut and series kick-off is great fun for fans of light horror. The changing image on the cover will snag interest, and the spookily realistic black-and-white illustrations throughout complete this slick, scary, funny package. [There are] delectable hints of age-appropriate, Lovecraftian Otherness . . . with none of the purple prose.
Quirk Books | HC | 978-1-59474-591-1 160 pp | $13.99/$14.99 Can. e-Book: 978-1-59474-592-8 | $13.99
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitlers Berlin
by Erik Larson NOW IN PAPERBACK In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs a far more diabolical urban cauldron than in his bestselling The Devil in the White City . . . a vivid, atmospheric panorama of the Third Reich and its leaders, including murderous Nazi factional infighting, through the accretion of small crimes and petty thuggery.
Publishers Weekly
Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-40885-3 480 pp | $16.00/$19.00 Can. Audio: 978-0-307-91457-6 | $45.00 e-Book: 978-0-307-88795-5 | $11.99
Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
by Jerry McGill PAPERBACK FEBRUARY 2013 These letters take readers on an unforgettable and intriguing journey as Jerome came to terms with his paralysis and his life. Themes of violence, hope, despair, forgiveness, anger, and living with a disability are explored both lightly and deeply, humorously and profoundly, and always honestly through stories about his relationships with family, friends, nurses, and others that crossed his path. . . . This is a book that sophisticated teens will love.
School Library Journal
Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-8129-9307-3 192 pp | $22.00/$26.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-679-64460-6 | $10.99
The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to the Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit is one of the greatest fantasy sagas of all time, a classic that has captivated generations of readers and is now an eagerly anticipated film by Peter Jackson, Academy Awardwinning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Del Rey | MM | 978-0-345-53483-5 320 pp | $8.99
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The Age of Miracles: A Novel
by Karen Thompson Walker PAPERBACK FEBRUARY 2013 [A] moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary with impressive fluency and flair. . . . Ms. Walker maps [her characters] inner lives with such sure-footedness that they become as recognizable to us as people weve grown up with or watched for years on television . . . . [A] precocious debut . . . one of this summers hot literary reads.
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Random House | HC | 978-0-8129-9297-7 288 pp | $26.00 e-Book: 978-0-679-64438-5 | $12.99
Del Rey | TR | 978-0-345-44560-5 144 pp | $17.95
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
by Jonathan Kozol In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.
Crown | HC | 978-1-4000-5246-2 | 368 pp | $27.00/$32.00 Can. Audio: 978-0-449-01259-8 | $40.00 e-Book: 978-0-7704-3595-0 | $13.99
Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised): A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
by Peter M. Senge, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith and Janis Dutton First published in 2000, Schools That Learn introduced the groundbreaking Fifth Discipline organizational principles to the world of education. This comprehensive revision addresses the increasing challenges facing our educational system and presents practical advice on how schools can use the principles of organizational learning to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world.
Crown Business | TR | 978-0-385-51822-2 608 pp | $37.50/$44.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-385-52186-4 | $19.99
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Id Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
by Tony Danza A witty, self-deprecating, and charming account of how being a teacher extends far beyond the four walls of a classroom. . . . Tony Danza depicts his brutally and beautifully real experience as a first-year high-school teacher. With humor and honesty, he highlights the emotional toll of teaching and describes how one of the most important careers in America is still one of the most unappreciated.
Erin Gruwell, author of The Freedom Writers Diary
Crown Archetype | HC | 978-0-307-88786-3 272 pp | $24.00/$28.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-307-88788-7 | $11.99
Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the Education They DeserveEven If It Means Picking a Fight
by Steve Perry This book is a timely addition to the debate on whats needed to fix the public education system. Readers will appreciate Perrys blunt, no-holds-barred, conversational tone as he aims to demystify school-based issues such as testing, accountability, what constitutes a good teacher, and teacher tenure. . . . Highly recommended for parents, preservice and working teachers, college students, and others who have a vested interest in the system.
Library Journal
Broadway | TR | 978-0-307-72032-0 | 272 pp | $15.00/$18.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-307-72033-7 | $12.99
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Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush on Public Education
by Nancy Schniedewind and Mara Sapon-Shevin Lost amid the debate over educational policies are the stories of the educators, parents, and students who are most affected by legislation such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. In Educational Courage, veteran educators and activists Nancy Schniedewind and Mara Sapon-Shevin bring together the voices of educators, parents, and activists, who offer stories of resistance and hope as they fight to uphold the ideals of democratic public education.
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-3295-4 240 pp | $19.00/$22.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-8070-3296-1 | $19.00
Feel-Bad Education
by Alfie Kohn NOW IN PAPERBACK Arguing that our schools are currently in the grip of a cult of rigora confusion of harder with better that threatens to banish both joy and meaningful intellectual inquiry from our classroomsAlfie Kohn issues a stirring call to rethink our priorities and reconsider our practices. Few scholars are more critical or more forthright about the problems with the U.S. educational system than Kohn. . . . A surprisingly accessible and at times witty educational policy expert.
Beacon Press | TR | 978-0-8070-0140-0 196 pp | $15.00/$17.00 Can. e-Book: 978-0-8070-0141-7 | $15.00
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Recognizing Innovative Projects in Support of Cultivating Literacy & Lifelong Readers
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The Random House Teacher Awards recognize the nations most dynamic and resourceful teachers who use their creativity to inspire and successfully instill a love of reading in students. The winning teachers will be awarded grants to help make their innovative reading programs possible.
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2012 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Meeting Mentoring Matters: A First-Timers Breakfast
Friday, November 16th from 7:00am 7:45am Location: Grand Ballroom 116/117
Book sale and signing to follow
Jonathan Kozol will also be speaking at the Conference on English Education Luncheon on Friday, November 16th from 12:30-2:15pm in Grand Ballroom 116.
JONATHAN KOZOL is the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age. He will present the awards at the 2012 NCTE Convention during the Mentoring Matters breakfast on Friday, November 16th. He will also discuss and sign his new book, Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America, drawing from his decades of work with children in inner-city schools.